A glorious day to head south at the start of life without work. High on the list was to get LPG and a supermarket. As we crossed the border into Belgium it wasn't long before we came across the largest American cemetery in the country, the photo shows some of the 8,000 war graves there!
After lunch at the aire by this dam (2nd photo) we continued south and found a garage where Bri would attempt the 1st refuelling of his home installed LPG system using the 'Belgium' adapter (sounds like a contraceptive I know). I stayed in the cab with my paws over my ears, not that it would make much difference if things went wrong. Thankfully he didn't make The Ardennes region as flat as the rest of Belgium so we ended up with 2 full tanks of gas without the hint of an explosion :-)
Then off to the supermarket at the aptly named Spa to get dog food, woohoo, and some other stuff. As we were so close to Francorchamps I took our appropriately named kennel for a blast around the track ;-) its not called a Swift for nothing you know.
Here comes the big disappointment of the day, Germany. Now come on, we expect to cross the Dutch/Belgian borders without knowing it, but Germany? Not so much as a willkommen to Deutschland, rubbish! The only reason we realised we had left Belgium was that the roads were no longer concrete slabs! Anyway, as Bri was busy fending off over aggressive artic drivers and concentrating on slowing down over the many speed humps, it was down to Rachel to find the signs to the stellplatzs. The next photo shows us at our 1st one :-)
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